Understanding Liver Disorders

Section A Basics About the Liver 1

1 What is the Liver and What Does it Do? 1

Section B Common Liver Diseases and their Treatment 4

2 What is Hepatitis? 4

3 Hepatitis A 6

4 Hepatitis B 10

5 Hepatitis C 13

6 Hepatitis D 16

7 Hepatitis E 18

8 Medicines that Cause Liver Damage 21

9 Fatty Liver Disease 23

10 Alcoholic Liver Disease 26

11 Cirrhosis 29

12 Liver Failure 32

13 Liver Cancer 34

Sect ion C Management of Liver Diseases 37

14 Investigations for Liver Diseases 37

15 Medicines Used to Treat Liver Diseases 40

16 Liver Transplantation 43

17 Prevention of Liver Diseases 45

18 Conclusions 48